Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-01
A GROWING CAUSE.
The Incresse In the Temperance Ssnt1>
msnt-Drink In Its Social and Moral
Aspects-The War Upon the saloon.

Tho Incres.s in the Temperance ssnsS-
msnt-Drink In Its Social and Moral
Aspects-The War Upon the Saloon.
He is q poor observer of current
movements who does not recognize
the increase in temperance sentiment
and the gathering momentum Of
power that is acting against the dram
shop. Whether or not as many people.
relatively. are addicted to drink -
there used to be. we have no doubt a
to the opinions that prevail relating to
drink in its social and moral aspects
1t is now not only a sin to be drunken.
but it is not respectable. The tipplers
are being driven Oft to hide themselves
from public judgment that refuses to
excuse them. AS for actual drunkards.
they are regarded with feelings of pity
and disgust The chief wrath. how
ever. is directed against tho men
who traffic in drink. whose BUSH
ness it is to corrupt society and
destroy their fellow men. body and
soul, for their own advantage. There
is settled determination on tine part
Of a large, which is also the best. part Of
the people of the country that these de-
stroyers shall be driven from their pur-
suits and compelled to earn their bread
in some honest calling. Every day
adds to the intensity OF the
conviction and sternness of tho
demand that the saloon must dis
appear. Even among those who differ
sharply as to the means by which to
bring it about there is the concurrent
belief that the time is ripe for destroy
ing the pest that has so daringly fixed
itself among the blessings of the day.
1t gets more and more to be the lad
versary" appearing among the sons of
God, whose destructive .touch," also.
is put upon all the precious interests
of society.
The frantic efforts of the lovers Of
drink, together with brewers. distil-
lers and saloonists. to stem the tide Of
indignation, is proof of the progress it
is making. They are using all their
resources in case which they admit is
desperate; and though they affect to
believe that the opposition il but tenn
porary-an excitement a craze. that
will after little die away-they know
better, and hence so exert themselves
to save all they can. By combination.
therefore. and efforts through the press
and politics, they are as active and
earnest rs resentment and self-inter-
est can make them. But this only
increases the determination of tho
friends of Temperance and calls
out their greater energy. Men and
women combine against such aggres-
sion. the contest grows into trial Of
strength between those who would
save society and those who would ruin
it; between the promoters of waste.
poverty. degradation and physical and
moral death, and the friends of the
homes. property, morals and happiness
of the people. We can not be in doubt
as to the result of this contest. The
Christian cultivation and moral force
of the people. represented in churches.
schools. benevolent associations. and
in all the higher forms of current life.
will not be conquered by the COARSE
malevolence of the drink traffic. Tho
mighty and all-prevailing truth will
prove itself here, as in all other causssL
United Presbyterian.